THE PEACE PACT.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17503, 10 September 1928, Page 7

THE PEACE PACT.

MR COOLIDGE’S VIEWS. END TO ISOLATION. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. It is reported in official circles in Washington that when the President, Mr Coolidge, sends the Kellogg antiwar pact to the Senate for ratification he may accompany it with a message, which in effect will sound the doom of the historic American policy of isolation. It is believed that in spite of Mr F. B. Kellogg’s warning that the pact must not be used to drag the United States into European disputes the President’s message will explain that henceforth America must consider herself under an obligation to join Europe in any paciCc attempts made to avert threatening wars. According to these reports the opinion of Mr Coolidge is that the Kellogg pact provides the necessary machinery for such comparative peace efforts. Unquestionably, however, the message will make it clear that the pact in no sense binds the United States to a definite course of action, or to gc to war in any circumstances, and that, to that extent at least, the United States will continue to hold aloof from Europe.